skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the person you're responding to, but if you give any kind of specific feedback, then you're effectively saying "Reason X is why I didn't hire you".

Dumb example, say you didn't hire someone because they wore a Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar shirt to an interview and you think that's not appropriate attire for an interview, and suppose you put that into your feedback for the rejection letter.

Now the candidate has a specific "I was rejected for this shirt". They might come back and say "Actually I'm a satanist and this shirt is part of my religion, so I'm going to sue you for religious discrimination". Suddenly you have a lawsuit on your hands, simply because you thought they were dressing unprofessionally.

Obviously this is a hyperbolic example and I doubt that there are a ton of Marilyn Manson fans trying this, but it's just to show my point: It's much safer to simply leave it vague with something generic like "while we were impressed with your qualifications, we've decided to pursue other candidates" email. They can maintain plausible deniability about the reasons they rejected you, and you don't really have fodder to sue them over that.

That said, I absolutely hate how normalized ghosting is in the job world. A candidate isn't entitled to a job, but I do think they're entitled to a response, even if it's just a blanket form rejection.
It doesn’t for me, instead it shows a sign-up page for Zight.
In Ashburn, VA, I can buy Dark Fiber for $750 MRC to any datacenter in the same city. I can buy Dark Fiber for $3-5K MRC to any random building in the same city.

That Duplex Dark Fiber with DWDM can run 4TBPS of capacity at 100GE (40x 100GE). Each 100GE transceiver costs $2-4K NRC dependent on manufacturer - $160K NRC for 40x. (There are higher densities as well, like 200/400/800GE, 100GE is just getting cheap.)

In AWS, utilizing 1x100GE will cost you >$1MM MRC. For significantly less than that, let's say absolutely worst-case 5K MRC + 200K NRC, you can get 40x100GE.

Now you have extra money for 4x redundancy, fancy routers, over-spec'd servers, world-class talent, and maybe a yacht if your heart desires.
I’m not sure I buy the premise as it reads as a Libertarian pipe dream. There are just too many examples of people willing to pay for something immoral or unethical to think that transactions can be broadly painted as a net good.

Capitalist transactions are a reflection of value systems and our own shortcomings/biases. To the extent that humans are flawed, many of those transactions are going to be ethically flawed as well.
I should have said “false” rather than “anti-intellectual”. I know the role of the host is not to be a fact-checker, but when a guest makes a false claim and then they speak about it without questioning it makes it sound like both people believe it’s true.

I don’t remember exact examples, but one was something to the tune of:

Guest: man the crime in America is crazy these days

Host: yeah, totally

Guest: I left city X because I couldn’t handle the crime there

Host: yeah, it’s the worst

Guest: it’s like New York in the 80s

Host: and the mayor and the governor do nothing about it!

Then of course the crime is not only nowhere near the 80s NY level, but also lower than in previous years when the guest apparently lived there.

Again, I don’t expect the host to say “you’re wrong” every time a guest makes a wrong claim, but saying “come on, NY in the 80s was brutal, we’re nowhere near that” at least limits the exaggeration
What I mean is unless your ideal is autarky or USSR under Joseph Stalin, it is hypocritical or ingenuous to expect having a market where you can sell goods and services worldwide but not allowing workers applying and getting jobs worldwide for same companies. That is called free market.

So if you happen to think you are missing jobs because they are given to people living in another country, you also have the choice to play by the same rules, relocate there and apply for the same job. Or ask for a lower salary where you already are to be competitive. This is fair competition.
Ask HN: What Happened to Mutable.ai
Title.

Everything from them is down. Twitter, website..

EDIT: The CEO gave up. He is working at google(https://www.linkedin.com/in/omar-s-baa4ba61/).
There's an aspect of longevity to our impact I love to contemplate.

For most of us, our tech work will be long forgotten and obsolete 20 years from now. At best it will have provided some small intangible advance - hopefully for the better.

But the people that built my house died before I was born, yet their work has a tangible ongoing impact to this day.

The people who built some European cathedrals lived over 800 years ago, yet that padstone laid by some nameless apprentice still holds an entire functional building in place.
>I don't think Americans want a puppet government.

The average american doesnt but the elites who feed the average american opinion forming propaganda certainly do.

And this is why the average american would draw this distinction - the opinion forming propaganda they are fed draws this distinction.

>We'd be perfectly happy if they just stopped the IP theft, spying, and maybe treated the Chinese people better.

America had a perfectly good relationship with China when it was weaker and it did all of the same stuff in the past. Now it has become powerful what was once tolerated is now unforgiveable.

For American elites China's real crime is being powerful. It tolerates genocide (Israel), spying on America (Israel), BRUTAL disrespect for human rights on a scale that far eclipses China (Saudi), but what it doesnt tolerate ever is imperial rivals.
Ask HN: Why do some medicines come as pills and others as capsules?
Short-term rentals are hollowing out communities with loose restrictions
ASK HN Help with capturing API xhr request automatically
So I’ve been making a website that automates making schedules for my university. The way it works now is I paste the json data of the courses into my website and it does the rest. The way i get this json is by going on my school website, inspecting element, going to fetch/xhr, and when i press a button on the site i go into the request and find the json in the response. Now for people that aren’t too tech savvy (even for just inspect element) is there a way to automate this within my website so that all they do is login press a button and my site does the rest.

Any alternative solutions are also appreciated. Thanks!
Was reading somewhere that one isn't a simulation. Rather super clever tricks to make it look like water, swimming pool, a thing in it.
Agreed, his writing is clear and his tone is pleasantly curious and humble. Was a nice read.
It is odd that people choose to ignore actual archeology- especially when it directly corroborates historical text. Which is quite different than folktales- perhaps your reference to 'Israelites' for which there is no real archeological evidence, is there?

Are you confusing correlation with causation? The Kalash are not an isolated group, so much as they have resisted to their best of their ability to mix with their Muslim neighbors (Pakistanis) because they are not of them and consider Phillip II to be their patriarch.
The incredible lengths people go to to try and obfuscate the obvious lol... 'Isolated central asian group without much contact or intermixing with subcontinent folks claims ethongenesis with Greeks over 4 thousand miles away'.
I listened to one of this guy's podcasts recently. The guest was impressive but Dwarkesh... Not so much. His questions were meandering and made it clear he didn't have much of a grasp on the subject matter. Does not surprise me that he is perplexed about the totalitarian regime's penchant for watching people.
AFAIK, just aio[1] (async file IO).

[1]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aio&sektion=4&apro...
Perhaps NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/916890880/we-are-shipping-to-... ('We Are Shipping To The U.S.': Inside China's Online Synthetic Drug Networks, 2020)

Perhaps NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/world/asia/in-china-illeg... (In China, Illegal Drugs Are Sold Online in an Unbridled Market, 2015)
Have been trying forever to find a coherent guide on building dual-GPU box for this purpose, do you know of any? Like selecting the MB, the case, cooling, power supply and cables, any special voodoo required to pair the GPUs etc.
Hiring is so broken now that it might be worth trying.
Well, taiwanese people for one.
The few Chinese I met who managed to (permanently) escape China after covid consider themselves extremely lucky.

Biased sample, maybe. Life doesn't seem easy for (young) folks in China right now and Winnie doesn't seem to be very popular among them.
Regardless of who you know, don't you think these claims are partly driven by, and drive, xenophobia - the same xenophobia and nationalism being applied to many things?
Looks like they changed things, time to switch off Zight I guess.

Does this work? https://p97.tr4.n0.cdn.zight.com/items/Z4uE5g1O/9b63a223-7f9...

Thanks for letting me know!
Which one? Is it Harris?
Is that not navier-stokes ?
Tofu dreg is not as large of a problem as it once was but I agree on the other points. I am interested to see if their monoculture experiment works. My armchair analysis has always been they made mistakes alienating foreigners as much as they historically did pre covid. With the lack of any way to get citizenship and the general hostility towards non Chinese.
In regards to objects like the guitar listed in the quote, there is a draw to how a hand-crafted item can be _unique_ due to slight imperfections. This can range from just slight imperfections in the wood to things such as believing your guitar has a unique sound.

Sure the factory guitar may sound "perfect", but the only guitar that sounds like this handmade guitar is this handmade guitar.
Or, at least, get a computer that’s also offered with Linux.
How about 3D? Is there at least an equation to solve that yet?
From the link, I didn’t even get the new requirements. Is steady + flashing ok? AFAIK it’s legal in Switzerland and Germany where flashing only is illegal.
What does solving random puzzles from Leetcode have to do with day-to-day engineering work? IMHO, the emphasis should be on previous experience, CS domain knowledge and systems architecture / design. Maybe degrees need to be fixed to convey more useful knowledge...
Here’s an article where the author concludes that while he’s not an ideologue, he does have an unbalanced cadre of guests: https://web.archive.org/web/20230117220803/https://www.curre...
Could you please share the Amazon link or light switch name? Thanks
Not a given though. Ubuntu phones home a lot by default.

Try disabling the motd stuff - it's quite pernicious by design.

And removing the ubuntu-advantage package disables the desktop. lol.
> Was working on the Manhattan project unethical because it furnished the ability for us to kill humans on an even more vast industrial scale than we previously could have imagined? Perhaps, but it's hard to square this with the reality that the capability of mutually assured destruction has ushered in the longest period of relative peace and global stability in recorded history

Ah, consequentialist versus deontological ethics: neither camp can even hear the other. Some people just pattern-match making thing X (weapons, profits, patents, non-free software, whatever) against individual behavior and condemn individuals doing these things regardless of the actual effects on the real world. Sure, invading Japan instead of bombing it would have killed a million Americans and who knows how many Japanese (real WW2 allied estimate), but ATOM BOMB BAD and PEOPLE WHO DO BAD, and so we get people who treat Los Alamos as some kind of moral black hole.

The world makes sense only when we judge actions by their consequences. The strident and brittle deontological rules that writers of articles that feature the wor d"ethics" in the headline invariably promote are poor approximations of the behaviors that lead to good consequences in the world.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by 'no'."
CPC is the official acronym, since the party’s name is the Communist Party of China (CPC), only in English does it become the Chinese Communist Party. They don’t use the CCP abbreviation in China.
You can switch into ACHI mode for NVME drives. The point is you cannot install windows clean without either having the RST driver, if your storage device is set to a RAID configuration in the BIOS, or switching into AHCI mode which my article describes. Since the Dell Laptop model I described did not have an option to switch from RAID into ACHI I was unable to install windows clean without the RST Driver. And that driver is not included on Dell's Website.

Please tell me where this is misguided..
Using language-native packaging doesn't imply that you have to use binaries from wherever. In the pytorch example you can still build it as a regular part of the distribution, using the C++ dependencies/toolchain, it just means you don't try to stuff it into a versioning/distribution/install model that doesn't match the languages expectations.
I wonder how many people taxi to the airport? I take the train, but I admit I live near a train line with good service to Schiphol.
No. I have used exclusively Vim for some time before going to Emacs, and I switched because the package management in Emacs was better and because the plugins were more polished. Then I wanted to do "the official way", using the default Emacs keybindings, even though I find the Vim keybindings better.

I switched in late 2015, things were different back then. If it was today I think I would probably jump to Doom Emacs or Neovim.
This is where I stopped reading. Not to be elitist, but anyone who considers this cadre the “intellectual landscape” of America is not someone whose intellectual contributions I’m particularly interested in.
Could you share the name of your former employer, or if you can't, could you share the name of similar employers?

I'm on a bit of a probability (gambling, sports betting, stats, etc) kick these days, and I'd be interested in reading more about people and companies doing this in practice. I'd been imagining there must be organised sports gamblers, but they don't seem to be overly searchable.
If you're looking for most bang for the buck 2x3060(12Gb) might be the best bet. GPUs will be around $400-$600.
Strangely enough, Faroe Islands are not EU.
Think of those test questions that give you 4 pictures and you are tasked to choose what does not belong: a chimp, gorilla, bonobo and a sea turtle.

That Sam Harris is named in the same group is a bit odd. He doesn't really fit with the others as an "entertainer" and from my limited knowledge of all of them appears to be the more focused or contained wrt subject matter.
That does work, thanks.
Fun fact, on openbsd(at least, I don't know about freebsd) select and poll were reworked to use kqueue internally.

The thread is an interesting read as it sounds like the naive approach has negative performance implications, knowing openbsd I suspect the main motivation was to reduce maintenance burden, that is, make it easier to reason about the internals of event driven mechanisms by only having one such system to worry about.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=162444132017561&w=2
Sam Harris was/is one of the “Four Horsemen” — a group of intellectuals and public figures in the mid to late aughts and early 2010s. The others were Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens. They had their differences, but they mostly advocated for (classic) liberalism, increased science education, the separation of church and state, and warned against the nascent anti-intellectualism at the time. Having Sam Harris (or any of the other three) in the same group as Joe Rogan and his ilk is like putting a classic Ferrari in the parking lot of a used Yugo dealership.
Rogan doesn’t really pushback at all, or in cases where he may face more criticism, pushbacks superficially.

He lost all credibility to me (which was already in short supply to be honest) when this became a pattern.

There is no meaningful pushback in Rogan interviews, and while I never fully agreed with most of what Rogan had to say over the years I did praise in the past that he was willing to ask hard questions and press answers, but that was long long ago now.
> There might be something else but this looks like a progress evaluation form and is hardly concerning.

There is indeed something else

> An online announcement from January 2019 by the Chinese consulate in Belfast even suggests recipients should report important papers published, patents obtained, and inventions made by those they work with at British universities.

I was unable to load the url for this, but it's not looking good. A certain line is crossed when you have to start reporting on ip that isn't yours.
How to Use Clerk with Firestore
The CCP is actually widely popular in mainland China.
Archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221225231302/https://webinfo.u...
The organization conventionally known in English-language media as the CCP consistently refers to itself as the CPC in its own communications, although there seems to be a pretty broad consensus that both acronyms are fine.
Much appreciated. I’m US based, but I travel a lot for work. It’s a blessing to have a wider perspective on gender roles, especially with so much of the journey now in the rear view mirror. AFAIK there’s no lower rung on the corporate ladder than a sad partially-baked trans person. Hormones are cheap but a remote tech job with a decent salary can make a transition affordable without jeopardizing your career, socioeconomic trends withstanding.

Sadly there are many ways to experience negative social expectations at work. Several of my formerly heavy-set colleagues have observed the perception of their competence being a result of their weight loss. Most of the cis men I know use a combination of testosterone, Ozempic, hair plugs, lifts in their shoes, etc.

I don’t blame them; Perception is everything.
Wayback machine solved the problem for me https://web.archive.org/web/20221225231302/https://webinfo.u...
Yes, a shame. I honestly expected this could get picked up as a mainstream news story over Christmas (except I think the actual story is older than this video);

Young people with talent and ingenuity, using modern skills and tools to acquire and maintain something with a history behind it.

I've bookmarked it for next time some old guy complains that young people aren't smart or motivated etc. etc.!
It's Merry Christmas.
They definitely win all of the elections.
Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?
It's not a secret or chinese thing.
European kings and emperors also had their cities remodeled to stack the odds in their favor in case they had to deal with uprisings.
How difficult would it be to prevent the ink from disappearing? Any tips would be appreciated, I'd love to integrate this into a drawing app.
> The idea of military driving through the middle of city is even more ridiculous.

Okay… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protes...
His guest list does cater to right wing listeners, and he absolutely does not meaningfully pushback on his guests, more often than not allowing them to make claims and accepting those claims at face value without any proof or follow on questions of substance
FWIW the CEO (who is listed on many places, including the company profile on YC) seems to be working for Google since some time...
For a very long time and until now, there have been models of Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboards, with all the classic PC keys, just with a split layout of the keys.

I have used such keyboards for many years and I have been content with them, even if a couple of years ago I have switched to a more compact completely split keyboard, without a separate digit pad (for 2 reasons, a closer position of the pointing device and easier transport in my luggage, due to its smaller total size, to be able to also use it instead of the non-ergonomic laptop keyboard).
Curious what led to the decision to use "burner" devices, was it fear of confiscation? I spent 2 weeks in China in 2024 (Tianjin, Tangshan, Chengdu, and Beijing), used Astrill as my VPN on my iphone and macbook pro and didn't experience any connectivity issues or app crashes. I even had a 45min signal voice call with someone state side. I was using Astrill's VIP add-on however.

> It's a good reminder that what's lacking in life is not time. It's focus. If you're working on what matters, you can advance leaps and bounds in 8 hours. And if you're just clearing the slog, you can spend a lifetime staying in the same place.

This. Incredibly obvious yet incredibly difficult to put into practice day-to-day. Another underrated perk of traveling internationally. All of a sudden, trivial nonsense starts to reveal itself through absence, allowing you to sort accordingly - carries over when you're at your home-base as well.
In the 1980s, "Reagan's great director of Central Intelligence, William Casey, asked the CIA's Soviet Division two obvious questions: Where is the Soviet Union weak? and Where is it most vulnerable? The answer he received was: We don't know. No one's ever asked this before."
I think an under-discussed issue is how companies are allowed to own sub-companies that don't need to necessarily disclose they're owned by a larger conglomerate. Like I don't know how you necessarily solve this, but I think if people, for example, knew the sheer number of snack brands owned by Nabisco, there would be a lot more discussion about corporate consolidation and monopolies.
I guess if you can manage 10 years there's a pretty high chance that the other side will give up, for instance https://commonwealthbeacon.org/environment/cape-wind-calls-q...

Same as trying to do a construction project in San Francisco, people will come out of the woodwork [edit: meaning separate cases, but with the same basic goal] with tons of money and delay, delay, delay. https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/12/20/nefsa-new-england-fishe...

Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong, but clearly the tactic is to come up with any challenge that takes time to resolve whether reasonable or not just because of the time and expense.
He's doing this only because Racket has the unusual feature of supporting images as "self-eval" values in the source code.

In other languages, all you'd want is the byte string (maybe BASE64-encoded, maybe with byte escape sequences), and you wouldn't need a fancy reader extension: just put a byte string literal.

A variation on the byte string literal you might see is when people create a minilanguage out of strings. For example, if you want to represent a 2x pixel map image with a fairly small color map... you might just have a string literal of ASCII characters for each row, where each ASCII character maps to an RGB color (or transparent) that you specify, with a simple function to translate it to binary. Then it looks like ASCII art in your source code.

Vector images, OTOH, are more likely to have a textual language already (e.g., SVG), so of course you can just embed that as strings in your source file.
> I don't buy the explanation that being unfree is somehow intrinsic to East Asian cultures.

You have the obvious examples of Taiwan and (formerly) Hong Kong - actual Chinese political entities, free and democratic and strongly embraced by the people there, and much more prosperous than Communist-controlled China. Also, Japan, South Korea, ...
Just wondering why you decided to use Embassy and RTIC? Was there any specific reasons? I’m doing an Embassy project on an esp right now so wondering if you have any issues or insights worth mentioning?

From my understanding Embassy and RTIC are two different models of concurrency so I’m not sure of any benefit of using both at the same time.